On Fri, 2008-06-20 at 13:39 +0100, Ed W wrote: > >> Can I make a very weak suggestion to look at that ZLIB compression > >> extension I think you mentioned in the past? > > > > It would have to be done by proxying in imap-login similar to how SSL > > connections are handled. But aren't you using SSL already, and why > > not? Using that would give compression for free. Although I haven't > > really looked at if it's already automatically enabled or if I or > > clients should do something special.. > > I don't think that SSL in general has compression enabled? Could be > wrong, but I believe it's a option, but badly supported? I'm not an > expert though so I don't know that for sure... I would be interested if > someone had a recipe for enabling compression on TLS?
Personally, just as a data point, I use SS_H_ (dovecot --exec-mail imap) to connect to my imap host and enable compression using -C, which seems to have a good effect. johannes
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